Harnessing AutoCAD 2004

Thomas Stellman
G.V. Krishnan

This most recent edition of the Harnessing AutoCAD continues in the tradition of previous versions by providing the widest selection of discipline-specific exercises and projects for learning how to use today’s leading desktop design and drawing software.

A smart how-to and reference manual, Harnessing AutoCAD 2004 contains up-to-the-minute functionality including extensively illustrated examples of "prompt-response" sequences, whereby certain commands prompt users for additional information such as coordinates or dimensions to complete a function.

The companion Exercise Manual has been also been updated, featuring problems in complete project format for practicing concepts and commands learned in a chapter or section, as well as for testing single concepts and commands. This complete package is appropriate for either the novice or advanced user.

Benefits:

• state-of-the-art AutoCAD 2004 functionalities, such as 3D modeling and rendering coverage, are featured in detail
• step-by-step explanations and examples illustrate the new programming and customizing functions of AutoCAD 2004
• ample, easy-to-follow instructions and must-know techniques set readers up for success when working through exercises and projects
• the comprehensive Appendices list commands, system and dimension variables, interface concepts, fonts, fill and hatch patterns, linetypes, hardware requirements, and plotter and printer devices

Contents:

Introduction.
Getting Started.
Fundamentals I.
Fundamentals II.
Fundamentals III.
Fundamentals IV.
Fundamentals V.
Dimensioning.
Plotting/Printing.
Hatching and Boundaries.
Block References and Attributes.
External References.
AutoCAD Design Center.
Utility Commands.
Internet Utilities.
AutoCAD 3D.
Rendering.
The Tablet and Digitizing.
Customizing AutoCAD.
Visual LISP.
Appendix A: Hardware Requirements.
Appendix B: Listing of AutoCAD Commands and Dimensioning Variables.
Appendix C: AutoCAD Toolbars.
Appendix D: System Variables.
Appendix E: Hatch and Fill Patterns.
Appendix F: Fonts.
Appendix G: Line types and Lineweights.
Appendix H: Command Aliases

1184 Pages - 7-3/8 x 9-1/4 in.

Harnessing AutoCAD 2004 Exercise Manual

The companion Exercise Manual to Harnessing AutoCAD 2004® provides more than 200 discipline-specific exercises and projects for learning how to use today’s leading desktop design and drawing software.

Updated to AutoCAD 2004, the manual features problems in complete project format that help readers practice concepts and commands modeled on AutoCAD use in the architectural, mechanical, electrical, civil, and piping fields.

Plenty of easy-to-follow instructions and must-know techniques in the core book set readers up for success when working through the exercises and projects of varying difficulty that are featured. These exercises are also included in PDF format on the accompanying CD-ROM in Harnessing AutoCAD 2004.

384 Pages (Exercise Manual)